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Flashcards by Sarah Egan, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Sarah Egan
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| Question | Answer |
| Sfumato | Painting technique that gives a soft hazy effect. The word comes from the Latin for smoke. Leonardo DaVinci often used it, e.g. in the Mona Lisa |
| Gouache | Paint like a watercolour, but opaque, so it can be layered and you can't see the paper or canvas underneath. |
| Impasto | Applying paint to a canvas in a very thick layer so that it has a raised texture. Sometimes the paint is mixed directly on the canvas. Examples include work by Vincent Van Gogh and Jackson Pollock. |
| Triptych | A painting on three hinged panels, often used as altarpiece art. An example is Giotto's Stefaneschi Triptych |
| Chiaroscuro | Technique that uses contrasting light & shadow, for bold effect. E.g Caravaggio. (Italian: chiaro=light, scuro=dark) |
| Fresco | Type of mural (wall painting) where paint is applied directly on wet plaster. (fresco = fresh). Difficult to repair e.g. Ecce Homo |
| Stippling | Applying small dots of paint with the point of a brush. The closer the dots, the darker the shade appears |
| Tempera | A permanent, fast drying paint. Usually egg is used to bind the pigment. |
| Trompe l'oeil | A painting that tricks the eye with an optical illusion, e.g. many of Salvador Dali's paintings |
| En plein air | En plein air means that the artist painted outside (in the fresh air) rather than in a studio. They paint the landscape as they look at it rather than use photographs or memory. |
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